Response to Spouses details

My experience: they will argue your husband has a beneficial interest in your assets and therefore they are, to all intents and purposes, joint. I will not state that this is set in stone, but I used to be in a position (work-wise) to see this argument successfully made all the time. The person with the debt, if living "in concert" with the asset holder, can be deemed a beneficial holder. The primary asset holder is then required to show the value of all held, beneficially attributable assets, so that the debtor's contribution and deemed ownership can be assessed. They have to be nasty b*****ds to take it that far though.

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